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-The difference in opinion that I had was that the overall message I received from the film was inspiring. Although it may have seemed to be very basic and “heard it all before”, I think that it truly is the secret to a happy life. If one wakes up every day with a positive attitude and feeling good than the rest of the day is surely to follow in the same path.

-Things said like you attract things in your life that you’re complaining about, really made me think. I mean it’s true if you have a really bad day or bad experience you completely just want to vent about that particular time. It’s not that venting will make the issue go away. I guess it is someone we as humans do from time to time and not even realize we are still with those problems, whining about them won’t make them get any better.

-Given the idea that this whole secret is really a metaphor would just detail the importance of positive thinking and positive attitudes. Consider the following. You live a life of misery. You call everything in your life a catastrophe. You think you're ugly, you think you're stupid and nothing right is going on in your life (this is what you think and feel). This of course will translate to how you behave and how you look. You don't care about how you look, you don't smile, you don't put much effort into the things you do, and accordingly, the people around you will respond accordingly. They will not smile at you, they will consider you unfriendly or uncomfortable to be around. They will also see that you slack when you do things. So the idea that "thought" can translate into "behaviour" and thus "response from the environment" seems much more reasonable.

-The Secret entices people with the very things most of us strive for: money, power, happiness and love. Plus, it is so simple! It’s worth a try, right? All you need to do is have a little faith and a positive outlook; you don’t even need to know how it works because it does. There seem to be no drawbacks to following the 3 steps: ask, believe, and receive.

-I found it very interesting how human beings were compared to grass in the ground. Grass does not strain to grow so why should we have strain and stress in our lives. We are all apart of nature, we are born, we live and we die. Why not live our lives in happiness and with no stress.

-A positive attitude with determined goals are directly controlled by your mind.

-The more you focus on the negative (or things you don’t want) it seems as though it is inevitable that it will occur. I find this to be true in my life, the more I wish and hope for something not to happen it seems as though it does happen, and in the back of my mind I know that.

-Ultimately, I think that people who think positively will achieve their goals because they are less likely to be discouraged and give up

-By changing the way we view ourselves and the events that affect our lives, we can in fact change who we are as humans. If we take control over our perceptions, than we can control the way we interpret them.

-The film did have several good points about how we all should focus on the positive things in our lives because negative thoughts drag us down. If everyone were to focus on the good and not the bad the world

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-this was very difficult for some to believe. The discussants seemed to believe that everything happens to humans because of different thought frequencies and not genuine hard work. The discussants seemed to be throwing these values out the window and instead relying on chance. This was very disturbing to watch and hard to swallow while watching the film.

-But simply sitting on your behind waiting for it to happen is utter nonsense. If we truly want something in our lives then we have to get up and do things for ourselves because if we were all to sit and wait for something to happen then nothing would ever get accomplished in this world.

-There really are no major guide lines we had to follow when watching this film, so I mostly just had my critical eyes open, and they were sort of unimpressed with how ‘The Secret’ unfolded. What a Capitalistic, North American, Orientals, overtly masculine, marketed, program for humans to live and think by.

-This in my opinion is another great example of a scam for ‘soft minds’ flowered generously with the word “science”. So many gullible people in our society if they see the word science they do not even question the content but take it to be factual indisputable truth. “The Secret” is a great example of this.

-The people who believe in “The Secret” all had pictures under the definition of gullible in the dictionary. I can’t even fathom what kind of brain processes one would have to actually believe that if they wished for cheques they would receive them.

-While having a more positive outlook does help in life, it's not the end all. You still have to work, pay taxes and die.

-Becoming a more positive person is a great thing to focus on but believing that it will gain you more possessions is an unrealistic goal.

-I wish instead that the film had embraced the idea of positive thinking for the benefit of humanity and the world. The 3 step process: Step one, Ask, Step two, Believe and Step three, Receive, was a good idea in principle. I think though, that the application of the process needs to be refocused in an unselfish manner.

-Bad things don’t go away on their own, no matter how insane your visualizing skills are. Real life just doesn’t work like that, either, and pushing the idea that it does doesn’t feel like a good thing to me.

-Isn’t God the one who guides our decisions and who “has a plan for us

What are people so attracted to in “The Secret”

-Primarily what we found most attractive to the people who actually enjoyed the concepts brought forward in this film was positive thinking. People were attracted with what positive thoughts and actions can do to your life. How positive thoughts are stronger then negative thoughts (similarly how we would all like to believe that good is stronger then evil). People liked the idea of how positive thoughts and energy could truly enhance your life in a variety of ways (relationships, material objects, happiness, etc.). While many people didn’t necessarily believe that these thoughts could DIRECTLY bring you what you want, they believed that a more positive life style would definitely enhance your life.

What is it that seems to be repelling some of us away from these ideas?

-What we found that repelled a lot of people away from these concepts was the greed and selfishness that they saw in these ideas. Many people felt this was a very materialistic outlook in which ones main goal in life was to gain material possessions. They also found this, (to put it bluntly) lazy. They believed that one should not be able or is not able to achieve such possessions by simply sitting around and wishing and hoping for it. They felt that hard work and dedication was crucial to success in life and that this was portraying an image completely opposite to that.